Devil at the crossroads: Jordan Peterson talks Christianity, suffering at Hillsdale College

World-renowned clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson cited biblical accounts and spiritual metaphors in his commencement speech to graduates of Hillsdale College in Michigan, encouraging students to maintain faith as they encounter temptation during this critical period of their lives.

In the speech, which took place on May 7, the Canadian author and professor warned students they are at a “crossroads” in life, where people encounter the devil and must “examine” their consciences. He noted that the students were no longer the people they were four years ago, and they have the “opportunity now to be the next iteration of [themselves] that [they] can be.”

“And then you might ask, well, why do you meet the devil at the crossroads?” he said.

“And the answer is, most fundamentally, because when you come to a place in your life where you have to make a choice … as the choices that lay themselves out now in front of you are weighty, you aim up or down, and there’s always an agent of temptation at every choice point enticing you to aim down,” the psychologist continued. … (Excerpt from The Christian Post)